The Reykjavik Process

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UCR:31210016384313

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The Reykjavik Process by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Arms control
ISBN : PSU:000012619368

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The Reykjavik Process by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780743203777

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Way Out There In the Blue by Frances FitzGerald Pdf

Way Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prize­winning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan, the most puzzling president of the last half of the twentieth century. Reagan's presidency and the man himself have always been difficult to fathom. His influence was enormous, and the few powerful ideas he espoused remain with us still -- yet he seemed nothing more than a charming, simple-minded, inattentive actor. FitzGerald shows us a Reagan far more complex than the man we thought we knew. A master of the American language and of self-presentation, the greatest storyteller ever to occupy the Oval Office, Reagan created a compelling public persona that bore little relationship to himself. The real Ronald Reagan -- the Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book -- was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the American national psyche and at the same time an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration and from the people who surrounded him. The idea that America should have an impregnable shield against nuclear weapons was Reagan's invention. His famous Star Wars speech, in which he promised us such a shield and called upon scientists to produce it, gave rise to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan used his sure understanding of American mythology, history and politics to persuade the country that a perfect defense against Soviet nuclear weapons would be possible, even though the technology did not exist and was not remotely feasible. His idea turned into a multibillion-dollar research program. SDI played a central role in U.S.-Soviet relations at a crucial juncture in the Cold War, and in a different form it survives to this day. Drawing on prodigious research, including interviews with the participants, FitzGerald offers new insights into American foreign policy in the Reagan era. She gives us revealing portraits of major players in Reagan's administration, including George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan and Paul Nitze, and she provides a radically new view of what happened at the Reagan-Gorbachev summits in Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington and Moscow. FitzGerald describes the fierce battles among Reagan's advisers and the frightening increase of Cold War tensions during Reagan's first term. She shows how the president who presided over the greatest peacetime military buildup came to espouse the elimination of nuclear weapons, and how the man who insisted that the Soviet Union was an "evil empire" came to embrace the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and to proclaim an end to the Cold War long before most in Washington understood that it had ended. Way Out There in the Blue is a ground-breaking history of the American side of the end of the Cold War. Both appalling and funny, it is a black comedy in which Reagan, playing the role he wrote for himself, is the hero.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4179791

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The Reykjavik Process by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Arms control
ISBN : LOC:00186274714

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Process and Implications of the Iceland Summit by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Antinuclear movement
ISBN : UOM:39015039056299

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Reaction to the Reykjavik Proposals by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science Pdf

Author : Nils Jansen,Mariëlle Stoelinga,Petra van den Bos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031156298

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A Journey from Process Algebra via Timed Automata to Model Learning by Nils Jansen,Mariëlle Stoelinga,Petra van den Bos Pdf

This Festschrift, dedicated to Frits W. Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains papers written by many of his closest collaborators. Frits has been a Professor of Informatics for Technical Applications at Radboud University Nijmegen since 1995, where his research focuses on formal methods, concurrency theory, verification, model checking, and automata learning. The volume contains contributions of colleagues, Ph.D. students, and researchers with whom Frits has collaborated and inspired, reflecting a wide spectrum of scientific interests, and demonstrating successful work at the highest levels of both theory and practice.

Author : David Scheffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nuclear arms control
ISBN : PSU:000011999157

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The Reykjavik Talks by David Scheffer Pdf

Author : C. Caseldine,A. Russell,J. Hardardóttir,O. Knudsen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080534392

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Iceland - Modern Processes and Past Environments by C. Caseldine,A. Russell,J. Hardardóttir,O. Knudsen Pdf

Iceland provides an unique stage on which to study the natural environment, both past and present, and it is understanding both aspects of reconstructing the past and observing and interpreting the present that form the focus of the contributions to this volume. The papers are all written by active researchers and incorporate both reviews and new data. Although concentrating largely on the recent Quaternary timescale a wide range of topics is explored including subglacial volcanism, onshore and offshore evidence for the Last Glacial Maximum and subsequent deglaciation, current glacial characteristics including jökulhlaups and glacial landsystems, soil development, Holocene ecosystem change, current oceanography, impacts of volcanic sulphur loading, chemical weathering and the CO2 budget and documentary evidence for historical climate. The key element of the volume is that for the first time it provides a wide overview of a range of topics for which Iceland provides an almost unparalleled laboratory emphasizing the importance of research on this small island for studies over a much broader global scale. These reviews point the way to future research directions and are supplemented by extensive illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography. * Wide range of related topics covered both from a present day and quaternary perspective * Reviews from scientists active in each research area across a range of subjects providing both overviews and new data supplemented by an extensive bibliography * Extensive illustrations and examples from the field

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433022555

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Iceland Customs, Trade Regulations and Procedures Handbook Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information by IBP USA Pdf

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Iceland Customs, Trade Regulations and Procedures Handbook

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Government publications
ISBN : WISC:89013738174

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philipp, Sonja L.,Acocella, Valerio
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783863951412

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Rock fractures in geological processes by Philipp, Sonja L.,Acocella, Valerio Pdf

Rock fractures play a major role in many geological processes, such as plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and fluid transport in the earth’s crust. The present volume contains the abstracts of all presentations of the symposium „Rock Fractures in Geological Processes“, held on 26-27 November 2013 in London honouring the 60th birthday of Agust Gudmundsson, chair in Structural Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, a leading expert in the field and author of a well known text book of the same title. The symposium covered all topics related to fractures in the earth’s crust, e.g., crustal stresses, rock mechanical properties, field analysis of fractures – from joints and faults to mineral veins and dykes -, analytical, analogue and numerical models of fractures and related fluid transport, as well as the activity of faults and volcanoes including calderas, and economic aspects such as exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons and geothermal energy.

Author : Jón Atli Benediktsson,Jocelyn Chanussot,Laurent Najman,Hugues Talbot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319187204

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Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing by Jón Atli Benediktsson,Jocelyn Chanussot,Laurent Najman,Hugues Talbot Pdf

This book contains the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, ISMM 2015 held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in May 2015. The 62 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluations and applications; hierarchies; color, multivalued and orientation fields; optimization, differential calculus and probabilities; topology and discrete geometry; and algorithms and implementation.

Author : Lino Briguglio,Jessica Byron,Stefano Moncada,Wouter Veenendaal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429592065

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Handbook of Governance in Small States by Lino Briguglio,Jessica Byron,Stefano Moncada,Wouter Veenendaal Pdf

This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context. While different definitions of governance are given in the chapters, most authors associate governance with the setting and implementation of policies aimed at managing a country or territory, and with the related institutional structures and interventions by political actors. Generally, good governance is associated with concepts such as policy effectiveness, accountability, transparency, control of corruption, encouragement of citizens’ voice and gender equality—factors which are, in turn, linked with democracy. What emerges from the book is that the societies of small states are being re-shaped by various forces outside their control, including the globalization process and climate change, rendering their governance ever more complex. These problems are not solely faced by small states, but small country size tends to lead to a higher degree of exposure to external factors. The chapters are grouped into four sections broadly covering political, environmental, social and economic governance. Governance is influenced by many, often intertwined, factors; the division of the book into four parts therefore does not detract from the fact that governance is multifaceted, and such division was based on the primary focus of each particular study and its main disciplinary background. The expert authors have, moreover, used a variety of approaches in the studies, the subject of small states being well suited to scholarly work from different disciplines using qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches to arrive at useful conclusions.

Author : Hrafn Loftsson,Eirikur Rögnvaldsson,Sigrun Helgadottir
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642147692

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Advances in Natural Language Processing by Hrafn Loftsson,Eirikur Rögnvaldsson,Sigrun Helgadottir Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2010.